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Secretary Hillary Clinton becoming president could come down to getting out the Democrat base in November 2016 and that won’t be easy because something fresh and different must be crafted. Yes, she is a thousand times better for our community than most of the GOP candidates but that isn’t enough. Democrats must frame their approach to our community post-Obama.

History will remember Barrack as a great president—one of my three favorites of all times. We remember that candidate Obama said he wasn’t running to be the president of Black America and he was correct; he is the president of the all of America. With that said, Blacks can finally see that who is in high office is secondary to what we do for self. John F. Kennedy said “ask not what this country can do for you….ask what you can do for this country.” What you can do is stop messing up and stop waiting for the government to fix your life.

At church yesterday, the head of the Stewards Board made a brief speech that centered on our community now being free but stated that with freedom has come a freedom to rob, kill, steal and do other detrimental things.

I have been saying for years that we are our own worst enemies. In the post-Obama era, we need an honest and frank discussion about how we carry ourselves. Hillary Clinton’s campaign could go the way of Al Gore’s if the Black community doesn’t feel that voting is important. After everything the Clinton/Gore White House did for regular people, these same people didn’t feel the need to vote for Al Gore…unbelievable.

So, the zillions of dollars that will be in the elect Hillary movement should be used in part to explain to our community that Democrats are about us more than the GOP. No, Blacks won’t vote for the Republican nominee because the crazy part of their party keeps us away but Blacks might stay home.

Surprisingly, Rachel Dolezal and Louis Farrakhan could tilt the balance of power in a way similar to Elian Gonzalez and Al Gore. Remember, the Cuban boy who was sent back to Cuba by the Clinton Administration. I knew right then that this issue would determine who would be president and the election came down to south Florida, pregnant chads and all that drama.

Rachel Dolezal is a White civil rights activist who decided at some point to self-identify as Black. There have always been White Americans doing serious work for the advancement of racial equality; their efforts and achievements exceed those of most Black people. But, she should have said I am White technically but Black culturally.

The presidential campaign problem is this: Dolezal felt the need to become Black because she likely knew that Blacks are weary of non-Blacks telling us how to feel, think and action. You know we all loved Bill Clinton as the first socially Black president until we actually had a Black presidential candidate. Remember, all hell broke loose when the Clintons tried to tell their long-time Black friends that being with Hillary was the thing to do. But, we (yes, me included) said Obama is special…not because he is Black but because he is just special….Washington, Lincoln, JFK, special. Oh, Bill Clinton is one of my favorite presidents of all-time but he couldn’t get me away from Barack.

In the South, Blacks now make up most of the Democrat Party because most rural Whites (former Dixiecrats) bounced for the GOP. However, the leadership of the Dem Party is still rich White people. In Georgia, I call them the Buckhead crew. The old saying goes “real power is who is at the table when the money is counted….not who is on the stage during the speeches.” The Buckhead crew eats and Blacks get the crumbs afterwards…just like the plantations of old. It’s based on color and that color is money green.

The Buckhead crew and the national DNC try to win in Georgia by getting out the vote in Atlanta. But Atlanta Blacks are too liberal to vote for moderate Dems like the recent U.S. Senate and governor candidates. That energy should have been spent getting out moderate to conservative Black voters in areas that support Rep. Sanford Bishop and former Rep. John Barrow. Hillary could win Georgia with non-Atlanta Blacks, White suburban moms and the ATL base. Rachel Dolezal has us thinking about who is at the top and that’s thinking that Hillary doesn’t need.

Minister Louis Farrakhan drives the Buckhead crew crazy because he could plant a seed of doubt with Blacks about Democrat leadership. First, Farrakhan’s views on Middle East and religion aren’t on the table in this blog post. Peace to all three Abrahamic faiths from this Black Methodist. I will say that Psalms 82 makes the Dems seem more in tune with Biblical teachings regarding the needy than the GOP.

Psalms 82

82 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

In the post Obama era, we remember that Farrakhan and Black nationalists have been encouraging Blacks to do for self, eschew governmental assistance and getting ourselves together for over half a century. Psalms 82 could play out today like this: help those who might become poor not become poor in the first place. Paul wrote that those who don’t work shouldn’t eat. Some feel that Democrats handouts since LBJ have limited Black growth. Farrakhan recently did a radio interview in preparation for another massive Washington rally and everyone on Hillary’s team should listen to the whole thing.

In the future, the conservative movement will realize that Farrakhan’s message to our community is similar to their message. Hillary Clinton has time to craft the next phase of our community’s relationship with the Democrat Party. The approach should be more about self-determination than assistance.

I missed President Obama talking about getting Cousin Pookie off the couch to go vote last winter. The election results indicate that “Pookie n nem” stayed right there on that sofa, futon or whatever. As Secretary/Senator/former FLOTUS Hillary Clinton ramps up her campaign, she must know that the actions of Pookie, Ray Ray and n nem in the fall of 2016 could tip the balance of the presidential election.

First, I declare my continued admiration for cool presidents Barrack Obama, Bill Clinton, JFK and Teddy Roosevelt. However, Obama is all kinds of special with his coolness. He is so cool that I support him in general when I would have personally preferred different positions on matters. But, that’s cool because the American people selected him and I respect the process. I even respected the Office of the Presidency during the Bush Administrations—something many of my Republican friends can’t current say. I would like to add that not respecting the process and ignoring laws that you don’t like is in my opinion un-American.

I keep hearing that President Obama will be on the “right side of history” about this and that. He is that bold kind of guy but sometimes he is doing what he knows is right as opposite to what the nation in general wants….like Lincoln. In college pol sci class, we called that a trustee elected official. That trustee puts the information on the table and makes a wise decision. Of course, we didn’t have the freaking internet information/new media machine in college and everyone wasn’t an expert on everything.

I know Pookie and Ray Ray n nem more and better than 95% of the politicos and staffers in Washington because I am part of nem (corruption of them.) Since I was sent to political and financial exile in the “kountry,” I have been listening and learning like Napoleon. I watch football on that same couch with Pookie before I went to vote but getting him to go is hard because the “Right side of history” Democrats seem to have less interest in the rural “we can’t win there” areas and more interest in needs of the Latino and gay communities….that’s what the homeboys are saying.

If the first Black president can’t get them to vote when he isn’t on the ballot, can the Dems count on that block in 2016? If there is hope, it starts with listening to their concerns and explaining clearly and plainly what alternatives would be. Scary them with the truth then take it back to the future.

Black moderates should be talking about a less government- involved community similar to the 1950s and 1960s. Of course, the government is need to protect basic civil rights for all Americans but Ray Ray is starting to see kids coming up (not growing up) expecting the governmental safety net and that expectation thwarts personal development and achievement. While we were under constant fear of domestic terrorism before 1970, we were grinding hard to improve ourselves—we were mindful about how we carried ourselves.

Democrats seriously having that conversation might get a few of those departed conservatives back. But, efforts like the Best Interest Initiative never get support and funding. It will be “go find the preachers and tell them to tell Black folks to vote.” Church folks will vote anyway but Pookie and Ray Ray n nem are going to needs something new and real.

Will the Black vote baton be passed from Obama to Hillary, will it be intercepted by an innovative elephant like Rand Paul (unlikely) or will it fall to the dirt? With so much time before the presidential primaries, candidates have time to test and research new projects to reach all voters—run it up the flag pole and see who salutes.

Of course, all campaigns should be reading Project Logic Ga’s Best Interest Initiate because I have personally crafted a unique budget-friendly approach to many southern concerns.

Recently, the Hillary Clinton campaign announced the hiring of LaDavia Drane, former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, as outreach director and point person for the Black community. Ms. Drane seems really bright and hopefully she will acknowledge the diversity of the Black community across this great nation. To me, the CBC and BET has a thing about being “urban” this and “urban” than; like the Black community in Georgia is only the A-T-L.

Well, a quick look at last year’s elections would indicate that Atlanta Blacks didn’t care for Democrat candidates for governor and U.S. Senate who spent more time bragging about connections to old Dixiecrats and current Republicans than embracing the Democrat in the Oval Office. Some of the time and energy spent trying to get the Atlanta vote out should have been spent on the rest of Georgia where Black voters are more moderate to conservative. But, people sitting in strategy rooms in the DNC see Atlanta as a big juicy peach and the rest of Georgia as a pit.

Hillary Clinton could win Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia with ease if the suburban soccer moms support her. It could be a national landslide for Clinton if that demographic was paired with most of the Obama voters but the uncertain segment of the Obama coalition is called Cousin Pookie.

President Obama coined the term Cousin Pookie for inconsistent voters. Pookie would be the guy who voted for Obama during the presidential elections but didn’t vote for any other candidates on the ballot (i.e. the Congress that Obama needed). Pookie doesn’t vote in midterm elections that often.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Starting tomorrow, you can vote too. You’ve got to grab your friends. You’ve got to grab your co-workers. You know, don’t just get the folks you know are going to vote. You’ve got to find Cousin Pookie, he’s sitting on the couch right now watching football, hasn’t voted in the last 5 elections, you’ve got to grab him and tell him to go vote.

That Leader of the Free World Obama really cracks me up; he was so right. But peep this: Democrats and Republicans should sit down on the couch with Cousin Pookie and ask him why he doesn’t feel the need to vote. Wait a second, Pookie is over his mom’s house; a house purchased under a USDA first time homebuyers program. He has countless friends who used military service as a ticket to a secure and better life. Of course, Pok should be watching CNN during half-time of the football game because the wrong President could send those homeboys and homegirls in uniform into harm’s way for questionable reasons.

What would happen if Pookie was looking for CNN and came across Sen. Rand Paul, a GOP presidential candidate with some interesting views on prison cost and weed. Paul is making a real effort at outreach.

In Georgia, Cousin Pookie might live in Hotlanta but he has folks from rural areas and the five or six smaller cities. That would be Cousin Ray Ray. Ray Ray served in the military after graduating from high school; he has never been in trouble with the law in his life. When Ray watches the Democrats on T.V., he see a bunch of liberals who are breaking their necks to give free stuff to folks who have never show any personal initiative. Actually, Ray Ray and his co-workers at the plant are pissed that their tax dollars are being used for more handouts than handups.

Cousin Ray Ray agrees with some of the conservative messages from talk radio in his F-150 or Ram with a Hemi but the next thing you know the talk about the President turns ugly and mean-spirited.

With so much time before next year’s election, the Dems and GOPers have time to listen to Pookie and Ray Ray. Someone needs to come up with a fresh approach; something that’s about solutions and answers. In the South, many Whites who voted for Bill Clinton are deep, deep into the conservative movement. They are going, going, gone like a Braves home run. To win, Hillary must replace them with suburban voters and rural Obamacrats.

I personally think the conservative movement has been hijacked by the most radical element but the Republican presidential nominee won’t need to say “they are sitting on their tailgates…listening to NASCAR.” Oh, conservatives vote without encouragement and one voting conservative carries more weight than 1,000 non-voting Cousin Pookies.

There are those who think that listening to positive Cousin Ray Ray’s personal history and opinions will get Ray Ray voting and that Cousin Pookie should be listening to Fox News’ coverage of the GOP primary season. If Fox doesn’t scare him off the couch, he isn’t coming off and Dems should let him feel the wrath of the Tea Party.

Naw, that wouldn’t be right. I was reading about Esther in the Bible today and she said in Esther 8:6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred? While the GOP isn’t exactly evil, some of them can be quite naughty.

Zora Neale-Hurston said “All my skinfolks ain’t my kinfolks.” At some point, my community might need to spend more time and energy on the positive segments and less on Cousin Pookie. In time, Pookie will get the message and decide to become Paul, Jr., an American voter.

Health/Wellness is an area of public policy that really hits home because we are talking life and death. Would someone in the government or a recently retired congressman just drink some truth serum and tell the God’s honest truth. The average American is personally responsible for their health problems due to bad diet and infrequent exercise. While some ailments occur naturally, fast food and sugary drinks are the roots of too many issues.

If Beretta don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time, a similar saying should be “don’t eat everything and anything if you don’t want to do hospital and early grave time.” Are some foods literally “to die for?” I had a chubby buddy who was told he was a diabetic but he simply said no…maybe later but for now no. He learned everything about diabetes and dropped most of his body fat in six months by exercising and eating right. While he is still a diabetic technically, he doesn’t take medication because he fought the good fight.

The good fight makes me think about Paul’s biblical statement in 2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have kept the faith. So, you have all these obese church folks up in the buffet spot on Sunday afternoon polluting the temple of the Lord.

Wise food choices are so easy for Americans because the stores are plentiful with variety and T.V. shows tell us what to prepare and why. We jokingly say that modern-day soul brothers are using low-fat fatback. Right On. I decided to walk away from pork and beef until I get my 230 pounds weight under 210. That was two years ago and I really miss hamburger but pork is likely gone for good.

People drink a surprisingly large number of calories. Is Mountain Dew worth the health trouble…it’s basically syrup. High fructose corn syrup and salt kill more people than bullets. I want to declare my respect for the First Lady Michelle Obama and really all first ladies of my lifetime. Even Betty Ford turned pill issues into a noble cause.

I have friends who have issues with (hate) Flotus Obama for championing the food choice issues. From the public policy standpoint, it seems Orwellian that the government and the non-elected first lady would tell (advise) kids on eating habits or work to remove unhealthful foods from schools. The eating habits of kids led to a lifetime (sometimes a shorten lifetime) of medical problems. Oh, health concerns are no problems…give ‘em pills for this and pills for that.

Yes, some people actually take the cholesterol drug Lipitor in Golden Corral before eating a fried chicken…not some fried chicken… a whole fried chicken. Too often, that person with long-term bad eating habits is the same uninsured person that cost the government over $200,000 as doctors try to save them…from themselves.

There is a difference between what Mrs. Obama wants us to eat and what the government can force or compel us to eat. At the same time, should medical ethics draw treatment lines when someone dug their own grave?

When Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House, he considered changes to the health care system that would reward those who ate right and exercised. His plan was similar to the auto insurance plans with vanishing deductibles today. If a person didn’t have a major health care expense in say five years, that person’s premium would be zero until there was a big expense.

Another aspect to consider would be the food kids receive free and reduced as part of the school lunch program. Should the government have a right to dictate the healthfulness of that food because the taxpayers are buying it? What about food stamps for veggies only? Of course, the beef, corn and pork lobbyists aren’t having it.

Moderation: The motto of the great state of Georgia is “justice, wisdom and moderation.” Friends in the health care profession tell me that I didn’t need to abandon beef and pork totally; I should have moderated my consumption of all foods. The smart First Lady Obama promotes the USDA change from the food pyramid of old to the new food plate which calls for wise amounts of fruits, vegetables, proteins, grains and dairy. Like Columbus discovering a place with millions of inhabitants, Americans are discovering what the Greeks and Japanese have known for centuries. You put a lot of veggies on the plate and add a little protein for seasoning.

As we get older, we apply moderation to many parts of life: one glass of wine, an occasional cigar, ribs on the Fourth of July only. The workout process starts with moderation because you have to crawl before you ball….it starts with walking.

Healthy choices also involve “relations.” Like with food, alcohol and drugs, don’t do it if you aren’t prepared to live with the possible consequences. Relations are likely better for most people without latex but I don’t want to hear a dam word of complaining if the worst results happen. You knew the risk factors and you made your choice.

Healthcare Industry: Again, everyone has an agenda and it usually involves staying paid. When I was a kid, you went to the doctor and he tried to figure out what was wrong with you. Today, the doctors want to give you medications to stop your body from sending pain messages to your brain. You don’t need pills long-term; you need to correct what is wrong.

The whole Obamacare debate was a political football being kicked around by two political parties with donors from all sides of the private sector. The reality is this: uninsured people use the emergency room as a doctor’s office and go to the doctor far too late.

If I had my own island nation, we would have universal health care coverage with an annual doctor’s examination. My doctors would catch a little bump that was going to be cancerous and remove it for a few bucks. In America, that person would receive half a million dollars in government-funded indigent care before dying. Dam. The annual exam on my island would give doctors the opportunity to say “you are 100 pounds overweight from poor eating habits and zero exercise. If you don’t get those 100 pounds off you in two years, the state will not pay for fat-related treatments. We will, however, pay your gym fees.”

While the last paragraph was mostly humor, there is nothing funny about the insurance industry making decisions about coverage for insured people. I didn’t say doctors making decisions. We are talking about insurance company employees in call centers somewhere. So, do you want to know why I eat wiser and limit Budweiser? It’s because I don’t like those people making life decisions about me. Yes, illness is part of life but it’s a part I avoid by fighting the good fight.

Big Pharma is the nickname for the pharmaceutical industry and they sell drugs. To me, helpful drugs are gifts from heaven but we shouldn’t seek a big pharma solution to a problem that can be addressed naturally..ie. diet and exercise.

Mrs. Obama must be dumbfounded when she thinks that we give bad free foods to poor kids and those kids become adults with horrible eating habits who again cost 500k for healthcare coverage. We are the greatest nation in human history because the best third of the population makes things happen but the worst third needs to step their game up …with no more excuses. And yes, the first lady and the government should discuss eating habits carefully because the taxpayers often fund medical care resulting from bad choices.

Mental/Emotional Health: People with emotional and mental health issues often self-medicate with alcohol, illegal drugs and wrongful usage of legal drugs. We should be mindful that emotional eating leads to health problems. Chris Rock says Black folks only go to counseling when it’s court ordered but with all kidding aside, all people need to check their mental health with the care they give their precious cars.

Peace, rest and happiness are good medicines; the soul needs wellness. Some people go from childhood to the grave stuck on angry – mad at the world for spinning. You don’t need experts to tell you that constantly boiling blood isn’t good for the mind, body or soul.

The Democrats failed in the mid-term elections for reasons that were clear to most—except them. I knew a year ago (no five years ago) that I would be writing these points today.

Money: Dems in Georgia raised and spent enough money for Nunn and Carter to win but they spent it in the wrong places. Most voters are unaware of the cottage industry surrounding elections, an industry that centers on Buckhead in Atlanta. First, you find a candidate who can raise tons of dollars with our friends then you hire our other friends to run the campaigns and still other friends to produce and do media buys for a zillion TV ads. How many people didn’t vote because they were weary from campaign ads?

The people inside this cottage industry won the election a year ago when they secured legacy candidates like Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter, rich fellows like David Perdue and sitting congressmen like Jack Kingston and a few others. They had the money makers.

Better Money: If Nunn and Carter listened to seasoned cats like Sanford Bishop, they would have cut the media buy money by a third and put that money on old school street teams outside of Atlanta. When the original Carter and Nunn were winning in the 1970s, the Dems knew to secure the support of old ball coaches, funeral directors, barbers, pastors and other community leaders. These community leaders would put together teams of workers who made a few dollars. Grandmothers would be so proud that their family members were involved and leading rallies.

I knew Michelle Nunn would make a great senator but her work history involving volunteerism concerned me from the start. Black folks aren’t volunteering when they can see that you spent millions on T.V. ads. They should have spent those millions on rally D.J.s and those free hot dog trucks. Food and old school music will get the crowd out and that’s when you hook them with warmth.

Learning from Florida: There are two important lessons we can learn this election season from our neighbors to the south. First, Gwen Graham won a U.S. House in North Florida by striking a correct balance between T.V. ads and community events. Of course, she is from a famous political family but she rolled up her sleeves and pressed pressed pressed the flesh at dozens of free food events. Hey, we like free food and Frankie Beverly music. Graham took it home last week with a free Jimmy Buffet show…nice.

Secondly, Governor Rick Scott narrowly won reelection by running up the numbers in rural areas to counterbalance big Dem numbers in the Florida cities. In Georgia, we have city Blacks in Atlanta, Blacks in the next five cities (Columbus, Albany, Macon, Savannah and Augusta) and rural Blacks. Obviously, the plan was to get metro Atlanta to balance the GOP’s rural base. But, those Blacks in Atlanta are real liberals who weren’t going to get pumped up to help Michelle Nunn while she ran from President Obama and ran to Governor/Senator Zell Miller. Yes, Miller was a great Georgian back when but he spoke at the GOP national convention for Obama’s opponent. Black folks have memories. On the other hand, rural Blacks are more conservative and more likely to support moderates like Sanford Bishop. The Democrat efforts should have started by listening to Bishop.

Second guessing: The Democrat Party in Georgia spent the last year trying to get White Republicans to switch back…newsflash “They are gone.” The party spent less energy getting the Obama base out.

Future: Michelle Nunn is still a big winner because she is position to be the Dem Senate candidate when Senator Isakson retires. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed would be the natural candidate but you know the cottage industry mentioned above must eat and they eat exceptionally well. Again, getting money is more important than winning.

Black diversity: This blog started years ago as an effort to convince our community to take a better look at the details of politics and policymaking. Both major political parties have incorrect approaches to us. We need to take a hard look at the role political hope plans in how we carry ourselves because the parties and the government are indirectly hurting us.

With one week before the 2014 mid-term elections, we should think about three presidential impeachments and the impact on our community. The good news is that one of them can still be avoided. Of course, impeachment is a need process in our democracy—Nixon. But, like many other things, people in Washington use it to play dirty games.

First, I can’t stand people who don’t respect the “fair and square” American election process or those who choose to IGNORE the law. The latter would be un-American to me. For example, the law says Blacks are citizens with the right to not be killed but that didn’t stop others from blowing off those laws since 1864.

Andrew Johnson: Johnson was a Tennessean who became Abraham Lincoln’s vice president. Upon Lincoln’s assassination, this southerner became president and this moderate clashed with Radical Republicans who wanted to give former slaves more rights as citizens. His “high crimes and misdemeanors” involved ignoring a law that stopped him from removing Radical Republican and Lincoln appointee William Stanton as Secretary of War, a position that oversaw the readmitted South at the time.

Johnson escaped removal from office by the U.S. Senate by one vote and it is generally understood the compromise on the rights of Blacks got him the needed votes.

Bill Clinton: Dam, he was a good president and that drove Republicans crazy. The man was fair, he listened to every side and he left office with a budget surplus. Because they couldn’t get him in the polling place, they tried to get him for lying about creeping. The biggest crime was that his wife was a much better women than the chicks he was chasing but we don’t need to list all of the presidents who wouldn’t keep it in their pants. That list would include some of the greatest.

The rough aspect of the Clinton impeachment/witch-hunt is that it took away from the real business of governing…being the leader of the free world. If my memory serves me correctly, Zaire/Congo was in the middle of a near genocide in 1998 but the White House was busy dealing with impeachment. Countless deaths could have been avoided but President Clinton had to spend his political capital addressing the GOP nonsense on the Capitol. If you asking them about that today, they grin as if to say “part of the game.”

Barrack Obama: The far right wing of the conservative movement can’t wait until the day after the election. They are discipline enough to stop talking publicly about impeachment from the after the primary election until the day after the general election. They don’t want to wake the sleeping giant known as the Obamacrats. With Republican control of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, President Obama will likely be impeached and could be removed from office for the offense of doing what he was elected to do rather than what the sour minority of the American people want him to do. They want him to leave.

In addition to impeachment, the House and Senate will be constantly bringing the Obama cabinet members and administrators to Capitol Hill to explaining every action since they came to office—oh, you haven’t seen gridlock yet.

In summary, you can love or hate the policies of a White House but you should respect the rights, duties and authority given a president by the American people. Democrats gave that respect to the second President Bush despite his questionable election.

Anyone who seeks to weasel around the democracy process is unconstitutional and, in my book, un-American. Oh, nothing is new under the south sun, son. We are talking about the people who laughed at federal court orders and U.S. Supreme Court rulings for years…..fire hoses, cattle prods, matches.

Everyone that doesn’t vote will forfeit their right to be surprised by the impeachment of the sitting American president for no good reason.

Why are Democrats constantly out foxed by Republicans and why do Republicans insist on scaring the daylights out of voters? When Senator Saxby Chambliss first ran for the Senate, Ralph Reed was in charge of the Georgia GOP.
Reed figured out that Democrat congressmen like Sanford Bishop shouldn’t have opponents if the GOP didn’t really have a chance of winning the seats. Just running someone would compel Bishop to fully engage his campaign apparatus which is a Death Star to most Republicans in that district. However, Bishop in blast mode also brings out unlikely voters who don’t care about political parties but do care about defending “our guy.”
As Daniel Boone studied the Indians, I have watched and learned from the GOP for decades. They are as hasty as they wanted to be and as smart as they want to be. The wizards behind theGOP curtain know that southern Democrats aren’t real liberals but they play that card time and time again. Smart…ugly, but smart.
The plan for victory for Jason Carter for governor and Michelle Nunn for senate should have involved Sanford Bishop having an interesting GOP opponent. Quick, name Bishop’s ‘no campaign ads on tv’ opponent. He is a dude named Duke and no Democrats know of him. Bishop will be declared victor two minutes after the poll close.
Mrs. Vivian Childs, a wise and nice Black professional, was defeated by Duke in the GOP primary. Democrats who wanted Carter and Nunn to win should have voted in the GOP primary for Childs because she would have raised real money from fellow Black Republicans nationally. Actually, Bishop and Childs debating issues in a pleasant manner would have been refreshing because they are cool like that.
Most importantly, Bishop would have pulled out the full power of the Death Star and much better turnout would have happened in Macon, Columbus and Albany. Those better numbers might have been the deciding factors for governor and senator.
When will the conservatives realize that their efforts to reach Black voters starts with understanding successful sections of our community. For example, they love to play the fear factor card with Malcolm X, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and other Black nationalists. But, Black nationalism is black conservatism. The GOP should be in love with the “do for self” movement and the “government isn’t your savior” mindset. But, they never listen to me.